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Cubed Circle Newsletter 181 – Ben Carass Goes It Solo! Cubed Circle Newsletter 181 – Ben Carass Goes It Solo! Unfortunately, due to exam-related delays I was unable to contribute much of anything to this week's issue. Never fear, however, as Ben Carass saves the day this week looking at RAW, NXT, SmackDown, and his surprisingly eclectic history with fans who have jumped guardrails, including those who consulted/attempted to recruit him before hand! Whilst we do have more on this in the 'Next Week's Issue', roles will most probably be reversed next week, as Ben will, in all likelihood, take a week-long leave of absence, leading to another one man show next week, with a few different (?) pieces coming up. – Ryan Clingman, Cubed Circle Newsletter Editor RAW Ramblings – April 13th 2015 O2 Arena: London, England. Ben Carass. The one thing you are guaranteed with a RAW taped in the UK is a hot crowd and unlike previous years they didn’t split the crews to run a separate house show, so they had an almost full roster at their disposal. Still, there wasn’t much to the show at all. They shot some angles to set up a few matches at Extreme Rules and half-heartedly tried to have a running narrative, however instead of having a show-long storyline they told a weak story that consisted of teasing a Kane face turn that basically played out during the course of the second hour. The show wasn’t good at all and I’m glad I saved myself the hassle of a 11 hour roundtrip and over £200 by not attending this show and saving myself for the big Rev Pro show in June. Story was that Randy Orton and Seth Rollins both had to win their matches in order to pick a stipulation for the WWE title match at Extreme Rules. Orton went to a DQ with Cesaro in 2:18 when Tyson Kidd interfered, but Kane showed up and restarted it as a handicap match. In typical WWE style, the real main eventer beat the Tag Team Champions with ease in 6:46 after an RKO to Kidd. Rollins was advertised to face Dolph Ziggler, however after Orton won his match Seth refused to wrestle Dolph and complained to Kane in a backstage skit. Rollins said he should wrestle Jamie Noble and told Noble to go out there and lay down for him. Noble insisted Kane should be the one to lie down because all this was his fault since he was in charge while HHH & Stephanie were away. This resulted in backstage skits with Kane contemplating what to do; Big Show pleaded with him to do the right thing for business then Daniel Bryan told Kane not to recreate the finger poke of doom from WCW. So they had the match. Kane laid down for Rollins, but kicked out at two then gave him a chokeslam and went to signal for a tombstone. He pondered what to do for a while then lay down next to Seth and pulled his arm on top of himself and did the 1 job. Kane stormed off and Rollins managed to laugh while he was still selling the chokeslam. – This whole deal played out over an hour and the idea of getting behind the Kane character at this point is laughable, plus having the main storyline of RAW revolve around Kane in 2015 is just depressing. All that tripe led to a main event talking segment with Rollins and Orton choosing their stips for the match at the PPV. Rollins’ stip was to ban Randy from using the RKO and Orton chose a cage match because he wanted to keep Seth’s stooges from interfering: Like we haven’t seen a million run-ins in cage matches. They blabbed some more until Orton finally went after Rollins, however he escaped and Mercury took an RKO. – So the main event for Extreme Rules is a “No RKO Cage Match”, what a hook! John Cena opened the show and was booed out of the building. He sucked up to the UK fans, which unbelievably they fell for. Sycophants! Cena said London should have WrestleMania and the place went crazy, clearly forgetting all common sense and logic given that such a thing is never going to happen. Bad News Barrett came out for the US title challenge and was over like a god and said he didn’t want to wait to beat Daniel Bryan at the PPV for the IC title when he could beat Cena for the US belt right now. They had a good match and decided to kick out of each other’s finishers for no reason other than to get a reaction. Cena retained in 9:50 with the ugly springboard stunner and a second AA. Lana came out and got a huge face reaction. She distracted Cena and Rusev jumped him from behind with a chain and Lana said their match at Extreme Rules would be a Russian Chain Match. – Probably the best thing on the show, from the match to the angle, all pretty solid stuff. I’m not happy about Rusev losing to Cena again, but hey, Superman and America always win. On a side note, Michael Cole said Barrett’s home town of Preston was, “an hour away” from London, which is like saying New York City is an hour away from Washington DC. I hate the WWE sometimes. It’s 230 miles for anybody that cares. Roman Reigns was interviewed by Booker T in the ring; I thought they had lost their minds by putting Reigns out there in front of the live crowd. He was booed quite a bit, however he pandered 2 just enough to the crowd that they didn’t completely ruin the segment. Big Show appeared on the Tron and they bickered back and forth. Eventually, Show jumped Reigns with a sneak attack and chokeslammed him on top of a Black British Cab that they always have as part of the set in the UK. – How utterly stupid does Vince McMahon have to be? Going back to Reigns/Big Show after the debacle that happened before WrestleMania with Show pinning Reigns which did absolutely nothing to help Reigns as the floundering babyface. It’s unbelievable just how out of touch the old man is these days. So remember last week when Neville lost to the WWE Champion and everybody put their “I’m a smart booker” hat on and pretended it was a good thing? Never mind that Neville didn’t nearly shine enough to get over as a serious top-level guy or that the match wasn’t given enough time to tell the story of Neville pushing Rollins to the limit. Well this week, Neville lost a 9 minute match to Dolph Ziggler. DOLPH ZIGGLER!!!! The guy who has been buried year after year and who will NEVER be a legit main eventer beat the young upstart in a throwaway unadvertised match. Go ahead, try and rationalise this one. It’s just insane. Neville did a couple of cool spots, like a 450 splash off the barricade on the floor, but come on, seriously, they have already cut his legs off before he had a chance to get some steam going. I am simply not having the, “oh these are good loses for Neville and he’ll get over by losing to top guys.” Well, I’m sorry, but Ziggler has never been, nor ever will be a top guy and losing to him only serves to stigmatise Neville as a mid-carder right out of the gate. You know what will get guys over? WINNING MATCHES! Sheamus hit the ring afterwards and laid out Ziggler with a Brogue kick. – You know what; just keep Balor, Owens, 3 Zayn, Charlotte & Sasha in NXT until Vince and Kevin Dunn are gone. Nobody is going to get over with booking like this. Filler-O-Plenty: Paige won the Divas Battle Royal. Summer Rae, Natalya, Naomi, Cameron, Rosa, Emma & Alicia Fox were all there too. It was a mess. The Bellas were on commentary and made fun of Rosa for being awful. Paige cut a hometown babyface promo afterwards and Naomi attacked her to start her heel run. I guess it will be a three-way for the title at the PPV. The Lucha Dragons squashed The Ascension in 2:15. Dean Ambrose downed Adam Rose and his Virgil tights in 2:10; it was a total waste of time. UK indie workers, Nikki Storm and Dave Mastiff were part of the Rosebuds. Stardust over Fandango in 1:00. Nobody cared, the only point of this match was for Fandango to dump Rosa afterwards then his old music played and the fans went crazy like it was 2013 with the goofy Fandangoing, which will last all of a week. Damien Mizdow got his win back over the Miz in a throwaway 2 minute match. This feud is officially death for Mizdow. The Prime Time Players kept up their new gimmick of being unfunny comedians and made fun of Los Matadores. Ryback over Luke Harper via DQ in 1:50; Harper hit Ryback with the top of the announcer’s table then Dean Ambrose ran down and attacked Harper post-match. It is also worth noting that Michael Cole was back on the show, no neck brace, completely no selling the same injury that killed Perro Aguayo Jr which was then changed to spinal bruising or something. Either way, it was totally stupid. JBL asked Cole about filing a lawsuit against Lesnar and Cole just brushed it off and said he didn’t want to talk about it, which is WWE code for, “We’re dropping the angle cold, everybody forget about it and go home.” WWE NXT – April 15th 2015 Full Sail University: Winter Park, FL.
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